ECHOES: Universal Signals

On View July 22 through July 31

The Chihuly Collection will be closing its doors on Beach Drive August 1, but not without one last exciting experience for art lovers.

Ya La’ford presents ECHOES: Universal Signals, a new large-scale interactive installation and new body of work highlighting the relationship between light, sound, and space opening Friday, July 22. La’ford is a painter, installation muralist and a social practice artist, as well as a professor who exhibits her work nationally and internationally. Her acclaimed, large-scale paintings are layered with richly textured paint and embedded with thick, painterly geometric lines interconnecting through space and color.

La’ford resides in St. Petersburg, but divides her time between the local art scene and that of her birthplace, Bronx, NY.

ECHOES: Universal Signals is a solo exhibition of golden infused geometric labyrinths on mirror, canvas and sculpture. This exhibit references La’ford’s signature linear and cyclical geometric labyrinths as a journey to explore metaphysical relationships between light, sound and space. The interactive sculpture installation scales the wall and highlights LED luminaries with an embedded sound instrument and mallet echoing vibrant and hollow tones when struck. The exhibit also includes an audio element featuring St. Petersburg poet laureate Helen Pruitt Wallace.

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Arts Center Association, Inc

As a community-based visual arts organization that has been a part of the St. Petersburg cultural landscape since 1917, the Morean Arts Center connects people with art through daily programming, offered 363 days each year.